Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
G. K. CHESTERTON
Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
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When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.
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The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
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Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
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I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
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The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.
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The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.
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